Could you help me understand the use case for this? I've used PIR and mmWave before. When would you choose tommysense vs some other option.

What really sets TOMMY apart is that it doesn't require line of sight and works through walls. This opens a lot of possibilities.

You can create zones spanning multiple rooms without sensors in each room. Instead of traditional room-by-room motion detection, you could divide your house into zones like "upstairs", "downstairs", or "living area". Especially useful for controlling heating by floor or area-level lighting.

Working through walls also means less clutter. You can hide devices in drawers, closets, or anywhere out of sight.

There's also a pricing aspect: ESP32s can be acquired for a couple of dollars each, so you could have motion sensing throughout your whole house for a fraction of the price of dedicated sensors in every room.

Fair criticism. I think the generous interpretation of "no hub" means you don't have to buy a specialized hub eg a Smartthings hub.

I can't help but feeling very envious (in a nice way) of your situation with coworkers. It seems like when you had an issue, you had someone 10 steps ahead of you willing to help out, give advice, lend a part etc.

This project seemed to go as well as my side projects, but when I run into a hiccup, I wait a month for a part on AliExpress, or wander around at Home Depot looking for something that I don't know what it is yet.

Kudos to you for surrounding yourself with great people. Thanks for the write up.

The author is my colleague. He’s so enthusiastic and fun to help (also very driven to solve issues).

We are lucky to have him around too.

Just for comparison, I've had a couple crashes in about a year of daily use. Definitely less than IntelliJ or Chrome has crashed, but more than vim.

That's really unfair comparison. IntelliJ and Chrome are more complex piece of software.

With many more people working on them and paid to do so.

That's just absurd.

An IDE or a browser have a huge number of failure points.

Just starting up initiates large numbers of complex operations, file I/O, processing, database, graphics, platform specific operations, what not. They are in a way OS of their own.

Comparing a CLI application, that's scope is tiny compared to a full-blown IDE or a browser, is absurd!

You likely dodged a bullet by getting rejected by FE International. I went through a couple of acquisition processes with them. Almost every person I dealt with there was dishonest and unprofessional.

> (OK he hates Apple so is pushing an alternative but a good POV)

Seem like an odd take. In the article he does say that he still uses it as a daily driver. He can't hate it that much.

He's had beef with them because they want the app store to take a cut of hey.com SAAS payments. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1755984581214499317 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1750937133328834656 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1747697778455962014

Totally depends. It's easy to imagine a situation where responding to a noise complaint would ideally finish with a warning.

The data is specifically referring to officer initiated traffic stops. Noise complaints are often reported by neighbors and then responded to.

So cops are just stopping drivers and giving them warnings. It sounds like harassment to me.

If I understand correctly, this is a vulnerability in self-hosted Bitwarden only. Is that correct?

This is for the single image self-hosted setup method, which is still in beta. The current supported self-hosted setup is a script that creates a bunch of individual containers for the different services.

Yes, per the article: "Bitwarden also offers a self-hosted option for those who want to maintain their own server, which is the one we are going to examine."

Missing my favourite apple: Aurora. This is the best apple by far. Last long, taste is amazing (though maybe a bit too sweet after a while). I can't rarely find them. Does anyone know how to track down where apples are grown?

Assuming you mean the Aurora Golden Gala, this is also my favourite with Honeycrisp a close second. The only place I have ever found them for sale is in Vancouver. I discovered them at the UBC Botanical Garden Apple festival (https://botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/apple-festival-2022-recap/)

Berkeley Bowl used to regularly sell them—not sure if they still do.

I know the site is partly in jest, but I cross-checked against my local bareroot orchard that sells ~75 varieties of Apples and this site had only about 5% of them. I would say it's missing quite a few of the best apples.

Oh! We had Aurora apples in upstate NY recently, they were wonderful. We were in Apple Valley right around Syracuse/Finger lakes region.

Can't seem to find anywhere to order them shipped though.

Apparently, Aurora is a cross between Golden Delicious (33/100 - horse food) and Royal Gala (70/100 - mediocre).

I think it's a great idea. I'm a SWE and have purchased three now. It seems way easier to run 3 micro businesses than it was to deal with everything that a typical job entails. I think the risk is quite low for most SaaS products.

If you don't mind sharing, how did you discover and pursue your targets? Would love to learn more on this.

how much did you spend on each and were there any buyer protection clauses (like earnout) you put in place?

Wow interesting! Please share!